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For those asking about whether they get a free update, and the HDR Batch Processing, here is what Skylum tells me: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
That's great news Jim. I'm really glad I bought the perpetual license of Neo when it first came out. I think I paid something like $80 for it at the time. With all the improvements they've made since, it's money well spent. Cheers.
@@tompatton2086 thanks Tom and yep a good deal for sure!
@@tompatton2086 me too! It's been great and I'm happy to see these new updates apply.
Great as always Jim. I can't wait for the update. Nit picking here but...when you switch to tools close up, your work area fades and makes it difficult to see what the tool you are demonstrating does the photo. Might just be me but I really like to see the change the tools make to the picture you are working on.
Thanks and understood. I get tons of people asking me to zoom in, and then when I do the way the recording software works is that it darkens the rest so you can focus on the zoom window. Maybe there is something else I can do but I tend to always show a before/after when done with a tool.
Looks like they have actually put useful updates this time. The luminous masking and mask refine spot object masking are long overdue. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the update 👍👍
thanks for watching and I agree, super useful updates!
Great updates for sure! Some of those features, Object Select and Luminosity masking were already in ON1, so good to see it in Neo. I'm assuming, though, that these updates are only for those who have a subscription to Neo.
Thanks Geoff and Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
WOW!!!! I wanted to give this multiple thumbs up. Thanks for introducing this to us!!!
haha thanks Bert!
Thanks, Jim.
Love the enthusiasm.🎉
thanks Donald!
Great video Mr. Jim, but I wish Luminar Neo introduced
1. Subject blending with new background and/or vice-versa for compositing. They already do it in a way with sky replacement where the new sky dictates the colour/feel of the existing foreground.
2. Auto-blend layers like that in Photoshop.
Thank you for your video. I always learn a lot from your videos 🙏🏽
Thanks for watching!
I think that this is a step in the right direction. Hopefully at some point, they will introduce a hair refinement tool for masking to help masking out those flyaway's. As you selected the ear tips, maybe it could have selected the hairs as well. TBD. Color range masks would be super helpful as well (something like the new color picker in LR/ACR). Also, a color/luminosity picker would be useful and have the slider to fine tune. It is good that there is a feathering option with the triangle to blend the mask transition. As always Jim, thanks for the update!
Thanks much and yes I expect we will get more tools over time.
This is great! Thanks for the overview, Jim.
thank you for watching!
Hey Jim; Thanks for this great preview... this looks awesome!
thanks for watching Marc!
Thanks, Jim. I'm looking forward to the update.
thank you for watching!
Thanks Jim, for the preview on the updates, all are a great bonus to editing photos. Looking forward to see how you use them in future videos.
Thanks David, lots of new vids coming soon!
Excellent Video, Jim. Thank you!!
thanks for watching!
Looks great. Thanks for the preview. Looking forward to receiving the upgrade.
thanks for watching!
Hi Jim, no wonder you're so excited. Thanks for the preview on what's coming. Im looking forward to the luminosity and object masking.
thanks for watching and yes it is exciting stuff for sure!
Bravo Jim!! Excellent new upgrades...can't wait. Appreciate all you do....and do it well...
thanks so much Jim!
This is the best and amazing update for Luminar Neo so far Jim. Thanks for the update video and need to watch several times to take it all in. The luminosity control seems so much easier to use. Glad we can turn off that dynamic background.
thanks much Ken and yes the luminosity masking is excellent and as you can tell, I love it!
Jim this is a very exciting update. Thanks for the demo.
thank you Lysander!
Your excitement for these updates is infectious, Jim! I am looking forward to April 25th! 😯 Thanks for sharing!
haha I get pretty excited about this stuff for sure, thanks!
wow Jim, some cool new tools at last, look forward to trying these very soon. thanks for the preview
thanks for watching Phil!
Thanks as always Jim for the tips/tricks and everything that you do. Looking forward to the new version....
thanks for watching Steve!
Really great tools in this upgrade. Look forward to trying them. Thanks for the preview.👍
thanks for watching John!
Brilliant, thank yo7 Jim, really looking forward to this update.
thank you for watching!
As always, your videos are both instructive and entertaining. Thanks very much!
awesome, thank you Barry!
Great overview! So nice to see the new tools in action and hear your comments. I'm still a neophyte with LN, but getting very excited about all its capabilities.
thanks for watching!
Really great update - thanks for talking us though it Jim
thank you for watching!
So looking forward for this update Jim. I have so many photos that I would like to reprocesses and this will make it so much easier and fun.
thanks Maurice and yes it makes me want to dive into the archives as well!
Wow !! I need to take a cold shower and wait for the 25th. Jim, Skylum should really rename the Luminosity Mask to the NIX slider.
LOL thanks for watching Robert!
Great video Jim, as usual I always learn something new each time I watch your productions. The Luminosity mask will be great, I have missed it in NEO from previous versions of Luminar. Thank you Skylum for this update, most appreciated.
thanks so much!
I have been waiting for this also. So excited, I take a lot of water photos, tourture till the arrival date.
thanks and yes it is a great update, will help a lot with water photos!
"If you don't leave excited, I don't know what to do with you"...One of your best quotes, ever, Jim. This looks better than exciting! *Btw, has anyone mentioned that auto alignment in Focus Stacking is not nearly as accurate as in the HDR?
haha thanks and no one has mentioned the alignment thing to me that I can recall
Great video. Thanks. Amazing stuff.
thanks for watching Greg!
This is what Luminar Neo is best. The finishing touches. Trying to compete with Adobe on catalog , geometry and other things they excel at is a waste of time. I am glad to see Neo is enhancing the things that make it special.
thanks and yes some great finishing tools for sure!
This is great Jim…I’m hoping some of this will appear in the iPad app too.
yes I hope so as well!
Sure sounds exciting! I do just Love this program and it just keeps getting better, Been waiting for this update as a certain V had mentioned. Looking forward to Fridays Video 4/12/24. Thanks for the review, keep up the great work.
thanks Paul and see you tomorrow then!
This sounds great, looking forward to the update!
thanks Larry!
Looks like a really awesome update! Thanks for showing your excitement ;)
thanks for watching!
You had me at Batch processing for HDR. That's a huge workflow win!
haha yeah that will be popular for sure!
Great review!
thanks so much!
Looks very promising! Can't wait to try the new version out. Now they hopefully can work on cataloging! ; )
thanks Dave and yes catalog still needs work but these editing tools are sweet!
Ooooh. And here I thought I'd be happy if they simply added the ability to reposition a mask (still waiting for that). Nice overview of the features, Jim. You probably could've gone on for 45 minutes. Skylum's GUI for luminosity masking makes it instantly understandable! It's so intuitive. Unlike in Photoshop, where I tried and failed many times to understand luminosity masks. It was such a dark art there. (I never tried Lightroom's version of it.)
Thanks Carl and yeah I could talk for hours about this stuff LOL. Yes the lum mask is super easy and is actually almost exactly like LR so it will be easy for those using LR too. It's just a great way to do it. Thanks!
Looking forward to get that version soon.
I hope you enjoy it!
WOW, Thanks Jim.
thanks for watching!
I hope this is as good as it sounds. Luminosity masking and reliable object selection are long overdue . I am a long time Skylum customer. But I’ve used their tools, including the most recent version of Neo, less and less, precisely because their masking is subpar. Neo AI masking cannot be trusted on even rather clear high contrast delineations. This is a shame, because some of the actual tools are brilliant. So, fingers crossed.
I hope you enjoy it, it's working well for me thus far!
Definitely looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for the preview!
@@Greg-cs8ky you bet
Really excited. Thanks Jim. Will the Batch HDR do an LDR enhancement on single images in batch? That would be really handy, because I always use some sort of DR enhancement, even if it is on a single image.
Hi Behram and yes it will. I just tried 3 completely different single exposures, ran them through batch processing, and it easily separated them all and build a single exposure HDR out of each, and then dropped them in the HDR Merge folder. So yes, same as with bracketed images. Thanks.
Jim: Awesome video!! I decided to get Luminar Neo on the basis of your review and found the order section on the main page and it said it was $7.95 per month so I clicked on the Buy Now button and found the price was $11.95 per month. I reached out to the company and have been blown off by two people about this issue. I feel that the company should honor that price on the main page (it's been taken down since I spoke with them but I have a screen shot) since it was their mistake at least for the first year. I wanted you to know what was going on since you're promoting their product. Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Looks like a pretty massive update Jim! I bet it'll be a paid upgrade for those of us who have V 1.18.3, do you know if it or not?
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
@@JimNix Thanks for that ifo Jim.
@@TC_Conner you bet
Thanks, Jim, just great 👍
thanks for watching!
Appears to be a great update. Thanks Jim. Maybe it's just me, but the switch to magnification on your video is nice, but unnecessary. Your cursor is already large and my eye has no trouble navigating to where/what you're talking about. In fact, it's a little frustrating when you magnify and then move these adjustments because the viewer can't see what they are doing. When you're in magnify mode, the picture you're editing goes very dark. I love your content....just giving you some honest feedback on this end.
I agree with your points. But I'm watching this on an 11" Chromebook and the full screen mode is far too tiny to read. The magnification is useful, though it does blot out the rest of the screen.
Thanks and yes it's funny that if I don't show any zooms, everyone seems to ask me to do so. Then when I do, I get comments like this one LOL. It's no biggie but I understand it darkens the non-zoom portion. Of course that is to draw attention to the zoom window. I can see if there is another way to do that or a setting I can change. But I think I always show the before/after when done with a tool so hopefully that helps you see what has changed in the photo.
@@JimNix Keep up the zoom, Jim. I appreciate the zoomed-in details more than I'm bothered by the darken screen. 😄
Oh boy, this very exciting I cannot wait.
it's so fun, you will love it!
Cool! I've been thinking about moving from LrC/LrD to Capture One (the colors on Nikon NEF files just seem to be a bit more natural), these added features could easily do the editing that Capture One can't do.
thanks and yes indeed!
This sounds great ,I can,t wait
have fun with it!
I am so far behind in learning to use all their new tools introduced this past year. Some of them were rather gimmicky in my opinion but these updates will enhance fundamental editing skills. Looking forward to more videos so I can learn how to use them. Thanks.
thanks for watching and yes lots of stuff coming soon!
Gracias por anunciar esta actualización.
thanks for watching!
Wow, great update! I agree with other posters - the magnifier is okay, but can’t have it darken the photo. Other than that, great job!
thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for this excellent video, I can't wait to discover these new features! I would have liked Skylum also to improve the "generative enlargement" module, which is really perfectible in terms of final rendering, and to be able to process a larger area when enlarging. I hope they'll do it for the next update.
Thank you very much for your very didactic and to the point videos.
thank you for watching and I hope we get more updates on more tools in the future, such as you have mentioned here
Great stuff coming our way! Thanks Jim for sharing. Have you tried or what do you think about Twilight enhancement for real estate photos? Thanks
thanks John and I haven't tried on RE pics, do you mean the outside light/color through a window? if so you could mask it in I guess
@@JimNix Sometimes on high end listings I will do another shoot at Twilight. Front of the house, back and pool. If that is not possible I have sent out photos for an artificial twilight. I will have to play around with Luminar Twilight in a few weeks.
@@John-Shutterlyphotos oh right yeah it could enhance those I bet, but for sure play around and see
Amazing!
thanks for watching!
Very informative. Thank you. I too have been waiting for luminosity masking. Would you create a separate layer for such? I’d imagine there is a certain sequence when building a layered image. Like to hear your thoughts about that flow. If not easily set out, perhaps you can create another video about your preferred editing flow once Neo is out of Beta.
You don't need a new layer for edits with all the regular tools. Each adjustment is like an adjustment layer in PS but you don't need to use the layers function in Luminar to add them. Just click the tool to open it, make the adjustment (luminosity or other mask type too) and close it. In Luminar, layers are reserved for things like texture overlays or composites or exposure blends. Does that help?
@@JimNix thanks. That helps. Looking forward to the release of this latest version.
I’m excited , very excited
me too!
Very exciting!
Hopefully they also include a fix that addresses the app crashing when trying to edit drone photos. Seems to be a known issue 😢
thanks and not sure about that as I don't drone anymore so haven't tried it
I noticed that we pronounce “mauve” very differently. Not sure if it’s a regional thing, but in Canada we pronounce it with a long O. Sounding like stove. Thats all. Look forward to your Luminosity deep dive!
Yeah I think the English pronounce it that way too, but we say it different down here I guess. 😀
Updating, thank you.
It's not out until April 25
Thanks, great info, does this apply to the new iPad version as well. If it is, then it would be ahead of the LR iPad version.
No this is the desktop app, the iPad app does not have all these features at this time. Maybe in the future?
As usual your videos are great and informative! Thank you. Skylum finally bringing some promised things (water enhancer) from the past that I pretty much gave up on. The new masking tools brings it closer to its competitors... finally. Was disappointed that Skylum didn't include a "picker" for it's curves and color functions.... something the "others" all seem to have... it's been bugging me for a while. It would be great if Skylum revisited and refined the denoise and sharpness add-ons. They are pretty much useless compared to DxO, Topaz, Lightroom and even On1. It's almost like a joke when you see comparison videos. Back when it came out, I was happy to pay for the extensions - now all it does is make me feel like I got "taken" for my money. Regardless, I remain a loyal user of Luminar Neo, and glad to see they are making further improvements. Still my #1 go-to app in my photo processing unless I run into something it can't handle, and others can. Looking forward to your tutorial videos on these new functions. Cheers!
thanks for watching and yes I am hopeful additional tools will get improvements too
Thanks! As always, great videos. I hope these updates are free with the perpetual license owners.
My thoughts exactly. I really hope they don't force a subscription on us in order to use these updates. They're some really useful tools!
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
Also looking forward to the point color range masking in Luminar Neo 1.19.1 coming in a couple months too!!!!!!!
haha we will see
Great changes. It seems that the automatic masking of sectors with the mouse is better than that of ON1 Photo RAW.
Thanks Jim
thanks for watching and I haven't compared them yet but yeah it's pretty amazing
great presentation and updates. Just a remark, when you zoom the panel, we cannot see the adjustments anymore on photo, it is greyed". I use to paint light with 0.3 exposure radial filters or with graduated filters and i am disapointed masks are still non identified (pins and names) and re-editable (handles) like ON1 and LRC but only with a brush. Also long time we ask for a brush with edge detection.
thanks Marc and yes we are asking for those things for sure, hopefully someday
AWESOME!
thanks for watching!
Wooohoo I am not great at editing and these up dates are going to help me enormously
thanks for watching and I am sure you will enjoy these updates!
I don't see the AI option in Develop section as the object AI is a good one. Maybe it didn't make it in the final 1.19 update? That looked like the most useful one of them all to me!
Do you mean Object Select AI masking? If you have a raw file, the first use of Develop is called Develop RAW and there is no masking. But it is there for subsequent uses of the tool.
Cheers Jim
thanks!
There's been a couple of comments about cost of upgrade. I'm one of those legacy 'lifetime licence' holders. I wonder if it'll come to me for free. Fingers crossed that since the version is still 1.x it will be possible. It also seemed you weren't sending the image to the cloud for Luminar server to do the AI so we may be in luck.
"Fingers crossed" here as well. 🤞
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
This looks like a great update Jim.. I just really hope they don't put their hand out again and want more miney like they have for all the recent features released for us lifetime license holders
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
Great update...👌
thanks for watching!
If we already have purchased Neo, will this update be free? The announcement that comes up when I load Neo isn't clear about that, it just takes me to the page for purchasing the program.
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
Did the luminosity mask work with B W images
sure
Does the HDR merge generate a raw/dng or jpg merged image?
It makes a TIFF.
Can you move the MERGE folder to another drive or tell NEO to use a different location?
I don't know of a way to move it bc it's inside Neo but you can of course take the photos once merged and move a copy to another folder.
@@JimNix I am sure you know but Aurora allowed you pick the folder to place the HDR files. I don't like writing to C: drive and then moving. Maybe you could ask to please make this small change. Thank you for you videos.
@@kentervin9098 it's a fair point but Aurora had no catalog function, and Luminar does, so perhaps that has to do with it
I've just tried to update to this and got a message asking if I wanted to backup my database, answered 'yes' and I have had a black screen with a yellow star for 20 minutes...
Am I safe to kill it?
Newbie here. Can this app work with Auto exposure bracketed photo sets?
Yes sure you can merge them to HDR or edit them individually
Is there anyway that they could add an Nd filter and a Polarizer effect?
There is a Sky Enhancer which is basically a polarizer. Not sure if they have any other plans like that.
Do they have cloning tool yet?
Clone and stamp has been in Neo for a long time.
Would like to see new features to edit people.
Yes indeed but no new tools for portraits in this update.
Will there be a fee for this update?
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
thank you for spoiler 😂 love the new features, waiting for updates
thanks for watching!
And yet you'll need the SUBSCRIPTION in order to enjoy these updates! I thought Luminar was supposed to be the Adobe Killer! I'm so glad I stuck with Adobe!
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
Excellent info Jim. I find it annoying though and unnecessary when you do a close of the tool adjustment. I like to see what the tool's doing in the photo.
Thanks and yes it's funny bc when I don't zoom in on a tool, I get requests to do so, and then when I do I get requests not to. 😂
@@JimNix Yeah, go figure. Keep up the great videos. You do an exceptional job.
@@dennisjones3074 thanks, I appreciate it
when will the last new update for Luminar Neo come it is now 25/4 2024 and have not received anything
I don't know, they usually roll it out around the globe in phases so as not to overload the servers.
im sad not have in pc windown
There is a version of this for PC. Is that what you are asking?
Is it free update?
Per Skylum: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
👌
thanks Kit!
Nice program. But its so slow laggy and crash alot on a mid end PC.
Sorry to hear that, it is very stable for me on a Mac
Very stable on my Dell 5570 laptop Win11 too !
Thanks for the video but - not really much of an "update" for those of us that bought the product for life, im guessing we may only see object masking and of course the new logo :(
For those asking about whether they get a free update, and the HDR Batch Processing, here is what Skylum tells me: Yes the update will be for all users - perpetual lifetime licenses included. However HDR batch will be accessible to those with access to that extension. Which means either people who had lifetime license + HDR extension, or lifetime users who bought lifetime after August 23.
They need to work on making it run smoother and the people masking. It doesn't mask people well and it doesn't run as smooth as Photoshop nor Lightroom.
Is this the American pronunciation of "mauve"?
haha well it's my pronunciation 🤣
I'd far rather Skylum concentrated on making some of the basics much better, eg noise reduction and sharpening, before introducing these gimmick features.
Nailed it with that comment. I've seen too many unacceptable results with A.I. noise reduction and sharpening. Not interested in their add-on plugins since I have a perfectly serviceable older Topaz Denoise doing well for both. That said, I wouldn't call luminosity masking a gimmick. It should have been there from the beginning. Or at least an edge-aware selection brush.
I don't consider luminosity or object select masking to be a gimmick. These are excellent, essential tools. I think this update is a nice blend of things like that and creative tools like Twilight Enhancer or Water Enhancer. But if you don't like them, cool no worries.
Yeah I tried their upscaling and it was terrible, I ended up buying hitpaw to enlarge my photos, was cheaper for the perpetual version too.
100%. I ended up uninstalling Neo and removing it from my workflow cause on more than one occasion it messed up my photos. Putting weird bars through faces and so on. Retouch4me is much more reliable.
Looks like a great update. Now if they didn't require a subscription, I would get it. I HATE their new pricing model!
You can still purchase it outright if you want to.
Still lacking support for editing and saving in DNG format... i've been asking for this since launch. ON1, DXO, Lrc, Capture One allow this, sadly Skylum thinks this is one exotic, useless feature. Until that happens it's a blocking stone in my workflow, and I can't truly recommend Luminar NEO. I can't understand the logic or the difficulty... sry.
Hmm ok I don't use that in my workflow so it hasn't come up but good to know, thanks.